Janis L. Pallister is Distinguished University Professor of Romance Languages at Bowling Green State University, where she has taught and researched since 1961. A native of Rochester, Minnesota, she received her education at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and the Sorbonne. She is the author of many articles and reviews of literature and film, and of some thirty books, two of which are about film - The Cinema of Quebec (1995), supported by a fellowship from the Canadian Government, and French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Pallister has translated women's literary works, including those of George Sand, Anne Hebert, and Joyce Mansour.
Ruth A. Hottell is Professor of French at the University of Toledo, where she has taught since 1988. Having earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in expanded French studies, she also studied at the Universite de Montpellier. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews on film, literature, and French cultural studies, as well as Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide, with Janis L. Pallister. Currently dividing her time between her homes in Toledo and Sete, she is finishing a manuscript on the films of Agnes Varda.
